Computer Science Teacher

Today's opening keynote was all about the new PK-12 Computer Science Education Standards. A lot of work went into these new standards. I...

There is a lot of talk about networking at conferences like this. While there is nothing wrong with networking if you do it right you are re...

CSTA 2026 didn’t start until noon today so I spent some time exploring. I wandered around the French Quarter. Bourbon street is not the same...

The tl;dr is simply this “We don’t teach physics in high school in order to create more professional physicists.” I’ve said that for years...

One of the things I have been doing since retiring is baking bread. I love some fresh bread and I want to avoid artificial ingredients in my...

Trying something new to me. I’ve been really interested in AI recently and when my friend, Rich, approached me about sharing his thoughts ab...

My friend Pat Yongpradit has a post on LinkedIn that got me thinking. It starts with a key statement “Computer programming (coding) is not ...

Artificial Intelligence has been big in the news the last few days. A lot of the talk has been about the Trump administration designating An...

There are a lot of Changes happening at code dot org The Slashdot article linked there lists several of them. While the changes include a n...

I  recently shared at quote on Facebook: Unless our students know that we care, they will not learn from us. I made the comment that...

A friend of mine sent me a link to an opinion piece in the IEEE Spectrum - AI Coding Assistants Are Getting Worse –> Newer models are mor...

The other day I ran into an interesting programming exercise on BlueSky. The project description is at 2D Dice Grid Scoring Algorithm - ...

Mark Guzdial posted a link to an interview with Jens Mönig . Jens is the main person behind Snap! which developed out of Scratch (which Jen...

Some of my readers who have been teaching Advanced Placement Computer Science (APCS) will remember the BigInt case study. It was a case stud...

I’ve been writing some code for my own amusement the last few days. I have happily using Microsoft CoPilot to help me out. One really has to...

According to Code.ORG The Hour of Code is now the Hour of AI The Hour of AI makes teaching AI literacy easy, engaging, and fun. Em...

Thanks to Facebook memories and a link that was almost a dead link I reread a post on my old blog – How To Read Code . It got me thinking ab...

I’m always looking for interesting projects. The other day I ran into the story of the Monty Hall Problem . The brief version of this logic/...

My latest coding involves an attempt to memorize nautical signal flags. I’ve played with this idea in the past but never had the time to rea...

Fair warning, this is a post in two parts. First a project idea and second musings on the tools I used to create it. I really do like to w...